Michigan’s B&K Corporation Drops Old ERP system in Favor of ETO ERP Leader Encompix

Written by Roger Meloy


B&K Corporation has two Michigan manufacturing plants, one in Fenton and one in Saginaw. The company founded in 1952 recently transformed their technology process by implementing ETO (Engineer-to-Order) ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) Leader Encompix, based in Cincinnati, OH.

Kurt Kuck, CFO for B&K shared some ofrepparttar operational challengesrepparttar 136648 company faced on a daily basis prior torepparttar 136649 Encompix implementation. Kuck noted, “We are a special order business. Every order we get is different in some regard, but many of our machines have some commonality to them. Our tendency was that when we received a new order, we had not simplified method of identifying what we could use from previous orders. That approach just added torepparttar 136650 cost. What was needed was some standardization.”

Kuck also onrepparttar 136651 lack of efficiency inrepparttar 136652 old Syteline system from Symix (now Infor Global Systems). “Syteline was fine for tracking material and labor costs. But what was lacking wasrepparttar 136653 capability to bring it all together into a job cost system that we could use for percentage of completion.”

Kuck noted they did not have a real time system. It was a very paper intensive system. The company would go into monthly job cost meetings that lasted hours and with three inch books of paper with all project budget recaps. The Syteline data was three weeks old.

PRONTO ERP Selected by OTI as Standard for Clients

Written by Tom Verzi


OTI, Optimizing Technology Inc., located in Mississauga Canada, has been developing and implementing ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems since 1984. The Canadian VARs (Value Added Reseller) customer base appreciatesrepparttar features built into their legacy systems which focused on individual manufacturing and distribution requirements. Withrepparttar 136647 advent of GUI (Graphical User Interface) it became too difficult to add some ofrepparttar 136648 new productivity features OTI and their clients wanted.

According to Dave Airey, VP of Sales and Marketing at OTI, “We started looking for a way to move our application to a GUI “look and feel,” but after two years of investigation it became obvious that it was not a practical goal. As an alternative we investigated upgrading our legacy application to a new product.”

OTI’s requirements for a new system revolved around their customers. After many years of custom changes,repparttar 136649 legacy system was geared to client requirements.

Airey noted, “OTI’s initial search took us torepparttar 136650 major ERP players, but none hadrepparttar 136651 features we required to support our loyal customers.”

Finding an ERP System with Strong Functionality:

The search for a new ERP system ended when OTI was introduced to PRONTO North America (www.PRONTOerp.com). According to Airey, “We were introduced to Pronto and were immediately impressed withrepparttar 136652 rich functionality. One important feature was that Pronto is fully integrated. We had engineered our legacy system to be fully integrated so this was of major importance.”

The Rationale for PRONTO ERP:

o Fully integrated o User definable options to tunerepparttar 136653 systems functionality o A support system to back up our customers o Functionality o GUI look and feel built using a 4 GL tool o Equipment rentals and tracking o Service maintenance o Both Manufacturing and Distribution in one package o Email & Fax capability o Multiple SQL platforms including MS SQL

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